University of Athens, 30 Panepistimiou St.1-3 July, 2015 - opening at 09.00

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY, 1ST JULY, 2015WEDNESDAY, 1ST JULY, 2015

9.00 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 10.00 Opening session in Argyriadis AmphitheatreProf. Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos, Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of AthensProf. Eleni Karamalengou, Dean of the School of PhilosophyProf. Liana Sakelliou, Head of the Faculty of English Language and Literature

10.00 – 11.00 FIRST PLENARY in Argyriadis Amphitheatre Deborah TannenThe ambiguity and polysemy of im/politeness in professor-student emailsChair: M. Sifi anou

11.00 – 11.15 J. Culpeper on Geoff rey Leech

11.15 – 11.30 Ç. Hatipoğlu on Şükriye Ruhi

11.30 – 12.00 COFFEE BREAK

Drakopoulos Amphitheatre

Argyriadis Amphitheatre Senate Room

12.00 – 13.30 Impoliteness (1)

Chair: M. Locher

Workplace interaction (1)

Chair: S. Fukushima

Panel: Address terms in PortugueseConvenors: Isabel Roboredo Seara, Maria Aldina Marques & Veronica Manole

12.00 – 12.30 Dimitra Vladimirou & Juliane HouseImpoliteness and creativity in new media: Global resources/ (trans)local spaces

Ekaterina RudnevaRussian im/politeness in the workplace

Maria Aldina MarquesPolitical street protests and address forms: Impoliteness as standard

12.30 – 13.00 Patricia Bou-FranchRevisiting online confl ict in social networking sites: The role of anonymity /familiarity

Seiko Otsuka & Tomoko Tani Adjustment of speech style in an intercultural workplace

Thomas JohnenOn the negotiation of interlocutive distance in interaction: The Portuguese address forms in discourse: Its implications for im/politeness

13.00 – 13.30 Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Iganski & Abe SweiryReligiously aggravated “hate speech” in the UK

Laurence Rosier & Pierre-Nicolas SchwabInfl uence of the communication channel on the forms of im/politeness in fi rms-customers interactions

Veronica ManoleForms of address in constructing personal and group identity in Portuguese parliamentary discourse

13.30 – 15.00 LUNCH BREAK for all in Kostis Palamas building

15.00 – 16.30 Im/Politeness and gender

Chair: S. Mills

Workplace interaction (2)

Chair: E. Ogiermann

15.00 – 15.30 Maria Elena Placencia & Amanda LowerAddressing among young Ecuadorian and Spanish women on Facebook

Melanie Kunkel“But apparently you have to complain in public.” Strategies of im/politeness in Web 2.0 customer complaints

15.30 – 16.00 Eleni Petraki & Ismarita RamayantiDiscourses of power: The use of politeness by Indonesian male and female managers

Irene Theodoropoulou“Doctor, give me another chance!”: Im/politeness in email correspondence between students and faculty members

16.00 – 16.30 Otilia Martí-Arnándi “Men don’t beg”: Gender and production of the politeness marker ‘please’ by Spanish EFL learners when mitigating requests

Vera FreytagIm/Polite directives in English and Spanish workplace emails

16.30 – 17.30 SECOND PLENARY in Argyriadis Amphitheatre Pilar G. BlitvichGlobalization, transnational identities, and confl ict talk: The complexity of the Latino identityChair: M. Sifi anou

18.00 – 20.00 VISIT TO THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM

9.00 – 10.00 THIRD PLENARY in Argyriadis Amphitheatre Theodossia-Soula PavlidouGender, indexicality, and im/politenessChair: S. Bella

Drakopoulos Amphitheatre

Argyriadis Amphitheatre Senate Room

10.00 – 11.30 Teasing / English as a lingua franca

Chair: P. Trudgill

Impoliteness (2)

Chair: J. Culpeper

Panel: Culture, globalisation and im/politeness: Portraits of L2 learners of Turkish (1)Convenor: Ç. Hatipoğlu

10.00 – 10.30 Ian WalkinshawTeasing to convey solidarity and aggression in English as an Asian lingua franca

Manuel Padilla CruzOvercoming accidental impoliteness: Internal vigilance, cautious optimism and epistemic friction

Yasemin Bayyurt & Leyla MartıImpoliteness in L2 Turkish suggestion formulas in a study abroad context

10.30 – 11.00 Mario Saraceni“Sorry for my English”: Apologies in and about a global language

Jim O’DriscollSommes-nous Charlie? Taboo and off ensiveness in the 21st century public arena

Hümeyra CanThe speech act of criticism and im/politeness in intercultural communication: The case of L2 Turkish

11.00 -11.30 Valeria SinkeviciuteWhat makes teasing impolite? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”

Anna LazarovaSome Modern Greek and Bulgarian pragmatic particles as impoliteness markers

Hümeyra Can & Çiler HatipoğluL2 Turkish learners’ conceptualization of the ‘polite’ speech act of congratulating in Turkish

11.30 – 12.00 COFFEE BREAK

12.00 – 13.30 Politeness and indirectness

Chair: M. Saraceni

Impoliteness in the media

Chair: P. Bou Franch

Panel: Culture, globalisation and im/politeness: Portraits of L2 learners of Turkish (2)Convenor: Ç. Hatipoğlu

THURSDAY, 2ND JULY, 2015

12.00 – 12.30 Sara Mills & Karen Grainger“English conversation is like a swan on the water”: Evaluations of English indirectness

Angeliki TzanneWhat’s cooking?: Impoliteness practices in a Greek cooking blog

Çiler Hatipoğlu The eff ect of culture on evaluation of im/politeness in L2 Turkish

12.30 – 13.00 Eva Ogiermann Indirectness in British and Polish family interactions

Marta DąbrowskaStaging impoliteness or how far you can go. Strategies of impoliteness in the Between Two Ferns talk show

Sevgi ŞahinIm/politeness in L2 Turkish refusals in equal status encounters in a study abroad context

13.00 – 13.30 Helen Basturkmen “Nice, but is the above really leading to the conclusion?” Supervisor feedback comments on students’ drast s of dissertations

Michael GauthierGlobalisation and social media: Swearing as the new means of communication?

Discussant:Yasemin Bayyurt

13.30 – 15.00 LUNCH BREAK

15.00 – 16.30 Im/Politeness, gender and age

Chair: B. Pizziconi

Im/Politeness in the media

Chair: J. Murray

Cross-cultural interaction and im/politeness

Chair: C. Taylor

15.00 – 15.30 Eleni Petraki & Shannon ClarkEmpowering women: The use of positive politeness in antenatal consultations

Rita FariaThe problem is, Nick, the problem is – nobody believes you: can we believe im/politeness? The role of im/politeness in successful argumentation

Reema Albilehi & Eva OgiermannPragmatic politeness in scholarly book reviews: A cross-linguistic study

15.30 – 16.00 Amin Ul RoohDiscourse, gender roles and im/politeness: An exploration of political TV talk shows in Pakistan

Çağla Baştürk Karatepe It’s not me, it’s you: Analysing confl ict talk in a corpus of sitcom discourse

Saeko FukushimaA comparative study on attentiveness and its related concepts in Japanese and English

16.00 – 16.30 Apostolos PouliosAgeing, age-categorization and politeness

Xinyuan Yang & Zohreh R. Eslami Between global and local SNSs: A comparative study of Chinese students’ compliment response behavior on Facebook and Renren

Francisco Miguel Ivorra Pérez Cultural values and impolite behaviour: The case of Spaniards, Britons and North-Americans

16.30 – 17.00 COFFEE BREAK

17.00 – 18.30 Teaching, learning and acquiring politeness

Chair: E. Petraki

Conversation analysis

Chair: M. Georgalidou

Cross-cultural interaction and im/politeness

Chair: K. Grainger

17.00 – 17.30 Sara Mills & Isabelle van der BomA discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data

Eleni KarafotiNormativity, im/politeness and preference organization

Charlotte TaylorMock politeness and culture: Perception and practice

17.30 – 18.00 Villy Tsakona A critical literacy approach to teaching politeness in the kindergarten

Géraldine BengschPoliteness and rapport building mechanisms in globalised settings: An investigation into interactions at the hotel front desk

Jiayi WangInter- and cross-cultural interaction of im/politeness discourse practice

18.00 – 18.30 Aisha SiddiqaThe use and acquisition of politeness strategies among EFL learners in France: An exploratory study of interlanguage pragmatic development

Margarita Giannoutsou “Don’t make it so long, you know!” Exploring violations of the turn-taking system and other incidents of impoliteness during sermon interpretation at an international Evangelical youth conference

Kyong-Ae Yu“Sorry, I love you”: A comparison of Korean mianhada and American English sorry

18.30 – 19.30 FOURTH PLENARY in Argyriadis Amphitheatre Marina Terkourafi Civility on Twitter: How online media are changing the rules (or not) and why it mattersChair: A. Tzanne

20.30 CONFERENCE DINNER AT ATTIKOS GREEK HOUSE

FRIDAY, 3RD JULY, 2015

9.00 – 10.00 FIFTH PLENARY in Argyriadis Amphitheatre Maria SidiropoulouWinds of Change? Voicing im/politeness in English-Greek translated political science discourseChair: A. Tzanne

Drakopoulos Amphitheatre

Argyriadis Amphitheatre Senate Room

10.00 – 11.30 Relational work

Chair: J. O’Driscoll

Panel: Politeness and interlanguage (1)

Convenor: S. Bella

Globalisation and im/politeness

Chair: I. Theodoropoulou

10.00 – 10.30 Miriam LocherQuestions in and about interpersonal pragmatics

Maria Economidou-KogetsidisA perception study: A comparison of native and non-native speakers’ perceptions on the politeness of L2 learners’ emails

Liliana Ionescu-RuxandoiuCosmopolitanism and globalization: A bird’s-eye view on the evolution of politeness structures and strategies in the Romanian cultural space

10.30 – 11.00 Aliki KeramidaFace and identity: Making a case for an interactional relationship through Greek translations of Romeo and Juliet

Ziyad Ali & Helen Woodfi eldExamining cognitive processes through verbal report

Andra Vasilescu Politeness strategies or cultural identity confi rmation strategies?

11.00 -11.30 Mariza GeorgalouNetworked privacy: Saving face on Facebook

Zohreh R. EslamiAmerican native English speaking students and Chinese nonnative English speaking students’ perception of a public corporate apology

Katerina TselikaPoliteness and globalisation in military discourse

11.30 – 12.00 COFFEE BREAK

12.00 – 13.30 Identity and face

Chair: M. Dąbrowska

Panel: Politeness and interlanguage (2)

Convenor: S. Bella

Evolution and change in politeness

Chair: M.Padilla Cruz

12.00 – 12.30 Jill Catherine MurrayIm/politeness and migrant identity in the Greek diaspora

Spyridoula BellaResponding to thanks: Divergence between NSs and FL learners of Greek and the consequences for establishing rapport

Nikolaos LavidasDirectionality of change in politeness: Evidence from a contrastive study of politeness in the history of Greek and English

12.30 – 13.00 Argiris ArchakisDoing pride via threat: Immigrant voices in students’ essay texts

Agata Klimczak-Pawlak Im/Politeness and L2 English apologies from across Europe

Yoshinori NishijimaAre young people in Japan getting more polite?: Change in use of evaluating concepts of communicative behavior in Japanese

13.00 – 13.30 Nino DaraseliaDisability etiquette from the standpoints of face and politeness theories(on material from English and Georgian)

Stavroula KefalaPoliteness strategies in tourism advertising through a Critical Cosmopolitan lens

Mihaela-Viorica ConstantinescuFrom Eastern to Western “globalization”: The case of the Romanian principalities in 19th century

13.30 – 15.00 LUNCH BREAK

15.00 – 16.30 Speech acts: Compliments and invitations

Chair: E. Karafoti

Addressing / Code switching

Chair: B. Pizziconi

Parliamentary discourse

Chair: A. Archakis

15.00 – 15.30 Ryogo Yanagida & Seiko OtsukaCompliments and compliment responses of lovers – Im/Politeness, power and gender

Hessah Aba-alalaaTi ep Terms of address in Najdi dialect: Normativity and variation

Marianthi Georgalidou“You are not going to turn me into Kasidiaris”: Addressing women in the Greek parliament

15.30 – 16.00 Yun He & Chengyu ZhuangSilence is eloquent: Non-verbal responses to compliments in Chinese

Justyna BernatThe expression of im/politeness in terms of address in Polish and French

Liliana HoinărescuIrony and im/politeness in Romanian parliamentary discourse: A diachronic perspective

16.00 – 16.30 Chengyu ZhuangPoliteness in Chinese: Invitation discourse revisited

Irma BochorishviliDo we switch codes for politeness purposes? A case study of Greeks living in Ireland

16.30 – 17.00 COFFEE BREAK

17.00 – 18.00 Changing politeness strategies in the era of globalisation

Chair: V. Tsakona

Politeness, civility and word play

Chair: N. Lavidas

17.00 – 17.30 Pawel UrbanikPoliteness untamed: The case of Polish requests in the Big Brother series

Barbora KrylovaGreek allusions at ancient Latin word play and verbal duelling

17.30 – 18.00 Eunseon KimAdvocating culture-specifi c norms of linguistic politeness in the era of ‘globalization’: The metalinguistic discourse of Korean honorifi cation in language how-to materials

Carole Gayet-ViaudCivility: A neglected part of citizen’s activity

18.00 – 19.00 SIXTH PLENARY in Argyriadis AmphitheatreMarianthi Makri-Tsilipakou(Greek) Im/Politeness: Predication and evaluation practicesChair: S. Bella

19.00 – 19.30 CLOSING SESSION

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